Yes, We Have Homegrown Fascists
BY REBECCA GORDON Photograph Source: Artsistra – CC BY-SA 4.0 One day when I was about six, I was walking with my dad in New York City. We noticed that someone had stuck little folded squares of […]
Category: USA
The USA’s Systemic Racism Includes Its Wars
BY NORMAN SOLOMON Photograph Source: Jamelle Bouie – CC BY 2.0 A recent Justice Department report concluded that “systemic” racial bias in the Minneapolis Police Department “made what happened to George Floyd possible.” During the three years since a […]
We Should Have Listened to Jim Hansen, Instead We’re Heading Toward Global Chaos
BY PATRICK MAZZA Hansen’s Warning June 23 is a significant date in history, when climate scientist James Hansen went up on Capitol Hill to warn us human-caused climate disruption had arrived. That was 1988. Fossil fuel […]
US ‘obsessed’ with inflicting strategic defeat on Russia
The Russian embassy in Washington was reacting to a decision to send another $500 million in security aid to Kiev Ukrainian servicemen unload a Boeing 747-412 plane with the FGM-148 Javelin, American man-portable anti-tank missile […]
Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’
Edward Snowden said in an interview on June 8, 2023 that advances in surveillance technology have made it far easier for government agencies to spy on citizens than it was in 2013, when he first […]
After UK Rejects Appeal, Press Freedom Groups Say Biden Must Drop Assange Extradition Push
Julian Assange speaks at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London on August 18, 2022. (Photo: John Stillwell) “If Biden lets this case proceed,” said one advocate, “future administrations will surely use the precedent of the Assange […]
How JFK Would Pursue Peace in Ukraine
Sixty years after Kennedy’s commencement address at American University, crucial lessons must still be learned about how to end dangerous conflicts in a nuclear world. JEFFREY D. SACHS Common Dream President John F. Kennedy was […]
Lockheed Martin CEO Hails Pentagon Budget Boost in Debt Limit Deal
President Joe Biden talks with Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet on May 3, 2022. (Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images) The head of the major U.S. military contractor said the Pentagon top-line in the debt […]
U.S. Jewish activist to undergo surgery on arm broken by Nazi cops
U.S. Jewish activist to undergo surgery on arm broken by Israeli cops By: Natasha Roth-Rowland Sarah Brammer-Shlay, whose arm was broken by Israeli police as they forcibly removed her from a Jerusalem Day protest, will […]
‘Behavior of a Fascist Police State’: Legal Aid Organizers Arrested After Backing Cop City Protesters
Rights advocates and lawmakers condemned Georgia authorities’ use of helicopters and SWAT teams to arrest three people involved with a bail fund on May 31, 2023. (Photo: Atlanta Community Press Collective/Twitter) “Bailing out protestors who […]